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A closer look at how GlobeSearch builds leadership and specialist teams for digitally ambitious companies. Confidential by default — we share more in conversation.

Featured partnerships

Stories that show how we work.

Different industries, different decades, the same operating model: a senior partner who stays close, a network that runs deep, and the patience to build for the long term.

Case 012020 — present

Public.com

Democratising the US stock market — from Copenhagen.

From scratch

Copenhagen Dev Center

~50

Engineers placed

$400M+

Total funding raised

Fintech · Investing

Building the Copenhagen Development Center alongside the CTO.

When Public.com set out to make public markets in the USA accessible to everyone, they chose Copenhagen as the engineering engine room behind the ambition. With the headquarters in New York and only the CTO and a small handful of people on the ground in Denmark, GlobeSearch was trusted to build the Development Center out from that early core.

Public.com approached us in 2020 — more ambition and ideas than results at that point, and a Danish footprint that consisted of the CTO and a few selected team members. The brief was clear: establish a professional software Development Center in Copenhagen capable of carrying a US fintech challenger into hyper-growth. With more than $400M raised from leading VCs, that ambition was put on the fast lane.

We responded with a dual-track strategy. On one side, we activated our network and domain expertise to move senior engineers, team leads, QA specialists and managers at the pace the business demanded. On the other, we partnered with PR agency HELP on a deliberate employer-brand play — placed stories in Børsen and DR, sustained presence on LinkedIn — to make Public.com a destination of choice for senior Danish tech talent.

The Copenhagen organisation grew from a small founding group to around fifty. Today the strategy is laser-focused on the US market, with a planned IPO in the next two to three years as the next major milestone. International expansion remains a possibility further down the line — one we'd personally love to see, as we'd happily use the platform ourselves.

More recently, Public.com has moved decisively into AI — and were the first to introduce an actual AI brokerage, taking the category another step forward.

Building an engineering hub for a hyper-growth US fintech demands more than recruiters — it demands a partner who can carry both the search and the story.

GlobeSearch

The brief

  • Build the Copenhagen Development Center alongside the CTO
  • Senior engineers, team leads, QA and engineering management
  • Build employer brand to compete for top Danish tech talent
  • Move at US-startup velocity inside the Nordic market
Case 021991 — 2010s

Microsoft

Three decades alongside Microsoft in Denmark.

20 yrs

Continuous partnership

100s

Placements across the org

All levels

Leadership to specialist

Enterprise Software

From a handful of employees to a national tech institution.

When GlobeSearch first sat down with Microsoft in 1991, the Danish subsidiary was a handful of people with an outsized vision. What followed was a partnership that helped shape both companies for two decades.

Across twenty years we worked closely with Microsoft as the organisation scaled in Denmark — from country managers and commercial leadership to sales, consulting and specialist hires across every layer of the business.

The relationship reached deep into the Microsoft ecosystem: hundreds of placements over time, including a dedicated recruitment partnership with the Microsoft Development Center in Vedbæk, and earlier collaborations with Damgaard and Navision before they became part of the Microsoft family.

The longevity wasn't accidental. It was built on two decades of trust, a shared understanding of what 'good' looked like, and the kind of relationships that turn a search firm into an extension of the leadership team.

Twenty years alongside Microsoft built the trust, the deep domain knowledge, and a strong pipeline of candidates at every level — so we could react fast, and with quality, whenever the next hire mattered.

GlobeSearch

The brief

  • Country management and commercial leadership
  • Sales, consulting and pre-sales specialists
  • Dedicated partnership with the Vedbæk Dev Center
  • Continuity across Damgaard and Navision into Microsoft
Case 032012 — Acquired by Entrust

SMS Passcode

Specialist software security, scaled to acquisition.

2012

Partnership began

Leadership + tech

Dual-track mandate

Acquired

By Entrust (US)

Cybersecurity · 2FA

A specialist partnership all the way to a US acquisition.

In 2012 we began working with SMS Passcode, a focused Danish player in two-factor authentication. The DNA fit was immediate — a specialist software business, a specialist software search firm.

From the outset we contributed to SMS Passcode's growth on both fronts of the business: senior leadership and technical specialists in equal measure, across commercial and engineering. The brief never sat still — as the product matured, so did the calibre and shape of the people we placed alongside it.

What carried the partnership over years was alignment: shared objectives, mutual trust, and an honest read of what each next hire needed to unlock. That foundation made GlobeSearch a natural part of the leadership conversation, not just the hiring one.

The chapter closed when US cybersecurity leader Entrust acquired SMS Passcode — a milestone the team built towards, and one we were privileged to support along the way.

When the search firm and the company share DNA, every hire compounds. Years later, that compounding shows up on the cap table.

GlobeSearch

The brief

  • Senior commercial and technical leadership
  • Specialist engineering and product hires
  • Trusted advisor through scale-up phase
  • Continuity of partner and judgment over years
Other partners

A glimpse of the wider portfolio.

Beyond the featured cases, we work with industry leaders across energy, public sector, media, SaaS and consulting. Most engagements stay confidential by design.

Topsoe

Energy & Catalysis

Search assignments for Director of Infrastructure & Operations, Global Support Manager, CISO, OT Engineers and more for Denmark's clean-energy champion.

Energinet

Energy Infrastructure

Search assignments for Data Center Lead, DevOps Engineer, Product Owner – Cloud Architecture, Solution Architect – SAP/ServiceNow and Enterprise Architect for the operator of the national grid.

Rockwool

Industry & Materials

Search assignments for Head of AI, Data Scientist, Data Engineers, Head of MDM, Enterprise Architects and more across a global manufacturing organisation.

Egmont

Media · EdTech

Search assignments for CTO, Finance Manager and ERP consultants for their education business — strengthening the digitalisation of the Danish public school system.

Kammeradvokaten

Public Sector · Legal

Search assignments for CIOs, CISO and architects for the Danish state's law firm.

Devoteam

Tech Consulting

More than ten years of partnership across the Management Consulting and ServiceNow practices — search assignments for Directors, Principals and Senior Consultants.

Planday

SaaS · Workforce

Search assignments for CFO, CTO and software engineers for one of the Nordics' fastest-growing SaaS companies.

Tjekvik

SaaS · Automotive

Building the leadership team — including CTO and CFO — alongside specialist searches across the business.

LogPoint

Cybersecurity · SIEM

Search assignments across sales, marketing and technical leadership and specialists. Now acquired and renamed to Guardsix.

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